Trenches Collection (page 18)

Vimy Ridge 1915
French front line trench on Vimy Ridge on the French Front in France during World War I in 1915

French Front 1915
French soldiers in a trench at Souain on the French Front in France during World War I in 1915

Blairville Wood 1916
German trenches at Blairville Wood, near Wailly, are bombarded

Battle of the Scarpe 1918
Capture of Greenland Hill by 51st Division. The 6th Seaforths working forward towards Hausa and Delbar Woods, north-east of Roeux during the Battle of the Scarpe (Second Battle of Arras)

Battle of Arleux 1917
Canadian troops resting in trench shelters during the Battle of Arleux on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

Givenchy 1918
View of a front line trench held by 1st and 4th East Lancashires troops, taken from No Mans Land in Givenchy on the Western Front in France during World War I in January 1918

Lewis gunners 1918
British Lewis gunners of the 12th Royal Scots wearing box respirators in action in a front line trench during a gas attack on the Western Front in France during World War I in June 1918

In the trenches 1917
Soldiers of the 6th Queens (Royal West Surrey) Regiment eating dinner in the trenches at the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in March 1917

Arras 1917
10th Scottish Rifles raiding party waiting in sap for the signal to go. Shortly after a shell fell in the trench killing seven men on the Western Front in France during World War I in March 1917

Soldiers with mortar 1917
Soldiers of the York and Lancaster regiment in the trenches with a mortar on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1917

Argonne 1917
British soldiers in a captured German trench in Argonne on the British Front in France during World War I in 1917

Hot stew in the trenches 1917
British troops receive hot stew in the trenches near Cambrai in France on the British front during World War I in March 1917

Dug-outs 1917
Dug-outs in Tramway Trench north of the Bapaume Road, Pozieres in France on the British front during World War I in February 1917

Operations on the Ancre 1917
Working party of the Manchester Regiment moving up to the trenches near Serre in France on the British front during World War I in March 1917

Soldiers in snow in 1917
Troops crossing snow covered ground going to the trenches near Bazentin in France on the British front during World War I in February 1917

Soldiers resting in trench 1918
First battalion Northamptonshire Infantry resting in a British Front line trench at Molain, near Vaux Andigny, in France during World War I on 17th October 1918

British supply tank 1917
A British supply tank, Kingston, going up to the trenches at Miraumont, Somme in France during World War I in 1917

Battle of the Somme
The old British Front Line trenches during the Battle of the Somme, Delville Wood, Somme, in France during World War I on 3rd july 1917

In the trenches 1915
Soldiers of the Cameronians (5th Scottish Rifles) in the trenches in Bois Grenier on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1915

Battle of Festubert 1915
German first line trenches with shells bursting in the distance. The ditch between the British and German lines was at some point 15 feet wide

Willow trench 1914
Willow Trench, Rue de Bois on the front line on the Western Front in France during World War I in December 1914. Trench was flooded at night when the dam burst leading to an informal armistice

Captured German dugout, Battle of Albert
Photograph of an incredibly elaborate and well-built German dug-out in the northern corner of Bernafay Wood, captured by the 9th Division during the Battle of Albert on the 3rd July during the first

World War I 1914-1915
2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, 7th Division, in the trenches at La Boutillerie on the Western Front in France during World War I in Winter 1914-1915

British troops in France
2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, 7th Division, in the trenches at La Boutillerie on the Western Front in France during World War I in Winter 1914-1915

Battle of Lys 1918
German infantry leap from their trenches to attack the cold, tired and homesick Portuguese Division at the Battle of Lys on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 29th September 1918

Digging trenches
British soldiers digging reserve trenches in Oudezeele Nord on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 1st June 1918

Somme trench 1916
British troops wait pensively in the trenches for the order to advance on Beaumont Hamel on the first day of the Battle of the Somme

Battle of Flanders
A British working party resting beside smashed German trenches and dugouts near Boesinghe, Belgium at the Battle of Flanders during World War I on the Western Front on 5th August 1917

World War I trench
A communication trench behind the British lines on the Somme. These trenches were used to transport men, equipment and food supplies to the front line

Lancashire fusiliers in a bay of a front trench showing a Lewis gun and wire. Opposite Messines near Ploegstreert Wood, Belgium during World War I in January 1917

Battle of Messines Ridge
View of Oosttaverne Wood showing trenches taken by the British at the Battle of Messines Ridge, Western Front, Belgium during World War I in June 1917

Battle of Menin Road Ridge
The 13th Durham Light Infantry in trenches before their attack on Veldhoek, Belgium, during the Battle of Menin Road Ridge during World War I on 20th September 1917

Battle of Menin Road Ridge
The 13th Durham Light Infantry in trenches before their attack on Veldhoek, Belgium, during the Battle of Menin Road Ridge during World War I on 20th September 1917

In and out (Ii)
That first half-hour after " coming out" of those same trenches" An air of relief amongst British soldiers who have completed another spell in the trenches

In and Out (I), Bairnsfather
That last half-hour before " going in" to the same trenches for the 200th time. Silent trepidation amongst soldiers waiting to go into the trenches yet again

Shooting Match between Rival Trenches 1914
An Anglo-German Bisley at the front. A Shooting test between British soldiers in their trench and German troops in the trench opposite

The Spirit of our Troops is excellent by Bairnsfather
A Tommy in his trench helps himself to a generous glug of something alcoholic from a stoneware jug

The Sentry by Bruce Bairnsfather
Original pencil sketch by the famous World War I cartoonist, Bruce Bairnsfather, creator of " Old Bill", showing a British soldier standing sentry in a trench

French soldier in a trench 1915
French soldier in a listening post in the French line on Vimy Ridge using a periscope on the French front during World War I in December 1915. This post was retaken by the Germans in 1916

French soldiers in a trench 1916
French front line trench with soldiers near Beaulne, Aisne on the French front during World War I in July 1916

Trench digging 1916
Excavating machine for digging trenches near Grivillers, Somme on the French front during World War I in June 1916

Home Defence, World War I
Home Defence, Wandsworth Battalion digging trenches on Wandsworth Common during World War I in August 1917

Amiens Offensive 1918
British Mark V tanks taking German trenches during the Amiens offensive on the Western Front in France during World War I on 10th August 1918

Where Did That One Go To
Worried group of soldiers hiding from gun fire in a bunker

Christmas mail arriving in the trenches 1916
Front cover photograph from The Sphere, December 1916 showing a joyful soldier in a trench laden with Christmas parcels

A. D. 19(?)
Two veteran Tommies with Methuselah-like beards are still manning the trenches of the Western front in an unspecified year sometime in the future; a light-hearted comment on the endless

British soldiers mending trenches

Two Louis-Phillippe mortar employed in the French trenches

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